A common issue that arises when designing an ADC circuit is how to protect the ADC inputs from over voltage. Protection of ADC inputs have many scenarios and potential solutions. ADCs from all vendors ...

For almost 20 years, researchers and semiconductormanufacturers have been trying to developa practical analog BIST (built-in self-test) formixed-signal ICs. By enabling mixed-signal ICtesting on ...

Continuing Linear Technology’s popular series of DesignNotes is Volume 3 of Analog Circuit Design (opening figure) with over 1000 pages (and five pounds) of analog circuits. Edited by Bob Dobkin and ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Despite the availability of FPGAs and microcontrollers, the historical use of analog circuitry to implement some ...

We were recently tipped off to quite a resource — on the Texas Instruments website, there’s a page where you can view and download a compendium of analog sub-circuits. Individual circuits can be ...

In this article, we highlight one of the most important architectural traits of new continuous-time sigma-delta (CTSD) precision ADCs: the easy to drive resistive input and reference. The key to ...

Design reuse is usually performed on a small scale in analog design. Proven design topologies and concepts are recycled by duplication, modification and development during conversion. A lot of ...

Analog circuitry is usually a small part of a large SoC, but it does not scale in the same way as digital circuitry under Moore’s Law. The power consumed by analog is becoming an increasing concern, ...